Friday, August 10, 2018

You are born in this world and since that moment you are heading towards death, whether you may like it, dislike it, believe it, disbelieve it, you may be atheist, theist, following this religion, that religion, you may claim you are an incarnation, whatever you may, you are not spared, the death is awaiting you.

You are conditioned thinking that you are on a journey. You want to become rich, to be famous, to be smart and that is causing a feeling of lack so you are seeking something to destroy that feeling. This makes you to always look forward to the future.

But the truth is, nothing you do, know or experience will destroy this "not enough" feeling. Your life is just endless cycle of accumulating wealth, knowledge and experiences.

So your ultimate goal, the main purpose of your life is the spiritual enlightenment, awakening, moksha, liberation, and all that stuff are just variations on the same theme: you want a permanent, uninterrupted happiness.

Unfortunately, no such thing exists. Your wanting something that does not exist is the root of your problems.

Enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.

Enlightenment is neither no mind, blank mind, empty mind nor stopped mind. It is the fact, as long as the mind is awake it thinks.

Enlightenment is not Nirvana.Nir means not or without and vana means a flame. Fire is a symbol for passion or desire so enlightenment is said to be a desireless state. It is not. Desireless mind is an oxymoron.

Enlightenment is neither the Oneness nor any transcendental state. No experience can be truth because it always involves an experiencer. Who is the experiencer, still reminds to be found.

Enlightenment is not the Etheral Bliss. The feeling of peace and bliss is brought on by the absence of suffering and not because awareness feels good. Enlightenment is not a feeling, that is an experience.

Enlightenment is neither a special status nor some kind of attainment.Truly, I have attained nothing from total enlightenment - Buddha.

Ignorance exists as beliefs and opinions in the mind. With enlightenment you are not getting something that you don't have, you simply remove the ignorance and realize that what you sought so frantically you had all along.

Belief is the conviction of the mind, when you think something to be the case without actual evidence to prove it with certainty.

You never believe that you are hungry or cold, you know it. As the saying goes... your events, your experiences are caused by your present beliefs. If you want to change your present condition start changing your beliefs.

New Age spirituality teaching you that you create your own reality and that you are what are you believing. However, the saying that you create your own reality has been part of our culture for thousand of years now, from The Buddha to Oprah Winfrey...

What you dwell upon you become. - The Buddha

It is done unto you as you believe. - Jesus Christ

Whatever a person’s mind dwells on intensely and with firm resolve, that is exactly what he becomes. - Shankaracharya

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Talmud

We become what we think about all day long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can dream it you can do it. - Walt Disney

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill

Remember, you are co-creating your life with the energy of your own intentions. - Oprah Winfrey

If your relationships aren’t fulfilling, or if you’re struggling financially, or if taking care for an elderly parent and that makes you depressed, you believe that if you simply practice positive thinking you’ll be rewarded with peace of mind. No, even with positive thinking you will still be a slave to your own mind.

The main reason for your slavery is your belief that inner (thoughts) and outside (world) events are true!

These are the first words of truth - not truth in quotation marks but truth in the real meaning of the word; truth which is not merely theoretical, not simply a word, but truth that can be realized:

Recognize that everything, including the sense of “I” is false.

See that the world is but a show, glittering and empty.

Realize that all is nothing.

Check every desire and see where they're leading you.

See that all objects including your relation to mother, father, children, friends etc. are untrue.

Understand that all your relationships are ready to fool you.

See your own meaninglessness.

When you see for yourself THAT, you will collapse in fear and confusion and you will acquire the greatest virtue of this world... humility. Until that happens to you, changing your beliefs is all theoretical, irrelevant.

Everyone wants to be somebody, and no one wants to be a nobody. You are frustrated in your quest for significance. Our present social system of elitism allows a select few to "succeed". For the majority, the life is just wanting. You remain driven by the desire to be somebody.

Is humility practical? You can agree that humility is a nice quality in others, because you feel safe and comfortable around people who are humble. But when it comes to yourself, you may consider humility a hindrance to success and a recipe of failure.

Changing your beliefs has nothing to do with personal ambitions for worldly success. Real fulfillment can be achieved only through knowing who you are and being what you are meant to be.

A clear sense of false identity cannot be seen from external circumstances; it can only be seen on the foundation of humility. Clear sense of purpose cannot be found in search of success; it can only be based on a deep conviction of your own nothingness.You may come to experience nothingness in your life, usually by contemplating your own human condition.

First, deeply think about the cosmos. Consider the vastness of the universe, that there are billions upon billions of galaxies with trillions upon trillions of stars and our sun is just one such star and our planet just a single small planet among trillions planets in our galaxy. You may become aware of how insignificant you are and may experience a sense of nothingness in relation to your own existence.

Second, think about the amazing numbers of people that have come before you and the number of people that will come into this world after you are gone, and when you see yourself for what you are, you may also experience your utter insignificance and nothingness.

Third way you may experience nothingness is when you are confronted with death and become aware of your own mortality. This happens when somebody who is close to you dies. The death of a loved one confronts you with the reality of your situation - that you too are on the path of annihilation, and this realization, together with your lack of understanding of any purpose in your existence, may lead you to the experience of nothingness.

Shakespeare has said this very beautifully in his play Macbeth:

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale,

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing.

When you're nothing you experience the infinite.

The experience of nothingness, you should be after, however, is a little different from the above three examples. It is through turning inward and focusing on your own individuality and experiencing its disappearance that you come to experience nothingness. You can't come into your own being until you are free from the whole thing surrounding the concept of "I", "me", self.

The nothingness is the experience of the death of your ego and it is the last experience, after that there is just being - the being of what-you-really-are. It is the highest form of humility.

And, here is the irony. With the humility, you will realize that there is no purpose to life. Life is not a means to an end but an end in itself. Life is not in the future but something in this moment. It is just a game. 😏